Yes, gettings 1000 laptops with the specs to run VMware will be real cheap. And training people who have never used a computer in their life to deal with Linux will be easy too.
A better solution is to use Boot Manager or whatever and create two boot patitions. One with with plain old DOS, and the other with whatever the fruit-of-the-Miscrosoft-day happens to be.
Typing "cmd" only gets you the NT command prompt which is not the same as typing "command" to get the DOS command prompt.
Either way you don't get "direct acces to DOS". Even not-so-direct apps we have that access the COMM port directly doesn't work too well under the virtualized COM ports in NT and Windows 2000. Interestingly it's fine in OS/2's VM DOS.
If it weren't for file-compatibility with MS Office files with our customers, we probably we happy just sticking to "pure" DOS. And we often "Restart in MS DOS" when things are not-quite-right running DOS apps in Windows 9x.
For this reason, like Windows 2000, ME probably won't make it onto our operations laptops. The problem is that we may not have a choice. When we buy our next batch of laptops it may only come with Win ME or 2K. I guess it's time to start stock up on Windows 98 licenses.
When I was in highschool (Grade 11 computer science) we did this interesting project where we create a hypo-machine. We would develop a quasi-assembly language interpreter with some simple instructions. Then we wrote some programs in this new language to show that it worked. Very simple stuff like adding and multiplying numbers and output to the screen.
It was great in teaching me how memory addresses and instructions work in a CPU. I think it's learning fundamental things like this that really helps the students understand want happens when they run a program.
That's actually not a bad idea. CeleronII 566 FSB 66 for doing "work"... turn on TURBO for some gaming at 850 FSB 100 or when you don't care if you crash and burn.
.. where's those mod points when you need them...
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The best use I have for internet on my phone is to use it to look up phone numbers. Do a search, click on the link and it dials the number for you. This beats carrying around a hefty "Yellow pages" and "White Pages" for a surrounding population of about 5 million.
Also great for checking stock quotes and other small pieces of information (e.g. traffic conditions). Larger pieces of information (i.e. email, or/.) needs a bigger screen so I attached it to my PalmPilot.
Anybody care to tell me why we have gmcanada.com when http://gm.ca would make much more sense?
Actually, one reason why you can't have gm.ca is that the current rules for.CA stipulates that the 2 character SLD are reserved for provinces and and territories. Albeit, the chance of us acquiring (or dividing) a GM territory is low, we have done it recently with the creation of Nunavut: nu.ca.
Still, I don't understand things like nissancanada.com when nissan.ca is perfectly OK
Why can't they just leave it up there orbitting and taking pictures? Is it running out of fuel? The article makes no reference to that. Are we really better off with another piece of space junk, even if it's not orbitting Earth?
Since I started reading usenet in teh late 1980s, I've been hearing more and more of the death of X.
For me, usenet will never lose it's importance. Reading on the web sucks,./ is about the only site that I read regularly on HTML. I do occausional use deja.com to search for specific topics, when it's not obvious which newsgroup I should start reading.
For some people the problem is their connection speed, which isn't really a poblem for me since I have cable@HOME and T1 at work. Good old text-based Usenet is just better for reading. Many people will complain about the spam, flame/holly wars, and trolls, but that's all part of the fun. Having said that, I wouldn't mind some slashdot-style moderating.
We don't really NEED super-over-powered PDA (and that's going to sound funny in a couple of years when we have 2Ghz chipettes), but who wouldn't want one if it did everything they needed.
My PalmIII is pretty handy, but I'd love to have a decent colour screen, more storage and a CPU fast enough to play MP3s and MPEG2 videos; and still have the same battery life. Wireless Quake would be awesome. While you're at it, I need a GPS system. And please use MDs for removable storage.
I know, somebody's going to flame "why would you want to view MPEG2 videos on this tiny thing", or somesuch. My question is "why not?".
And it should be all to auto-drive my car (so I can read/. instead of fight traffic) and bring me food when I'm hungry.
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From reading all these CNET/ZDNET/MSNBC/CNN articles, you'd think that it's just another x86 clone. I think "Mobile Internet" is just a marketing grab-bag of buzz word. Oh and "Mobile Linux Web Pad"; wow bonus points for getting 'web', 'internet', and 'linux' in there.
I seriously hope that once they get some recognition they'll get beyond this markdroid stuff and do something really interesting with Crusoe. Releasing Java, DragonBall Z (PalmPilot), and other code-morphing layers would be a start. As just-anther-intel-clone, they're gonna go nowhere.
ObStockMarket: IBM, and AMD were up a few of bucks, and Intel was down a couple today. Coincident?
Lisa (referring to robot toy): "They must have programmed it to eliminate the competition!" Bart: "You mean like Microsoft?"
I laugh so hard at that one, but other people in the room just thought that I was insane. There's tons of gems like this that I only catch when I see an episode for the second or third time. Anyone ever notice all the details that in the episodes? People who complain that the Simpsons isn't funny any more has probably 'missed the point'.
If nothing notable occurs all day: "But we may not know the REAL effects of the Y2K bug for days... weeks... years!"
Coincidently, I just saw a little segment about the 9/9/99 problem on CNN. Bascially, just about what you said above; the-dust-has-not-settled hysteria. I was hoping to to see an end to this Millennium Bug garbage, but I guess we're going to keep hearing about it until enough people catch on to CNN's next big thing (IPv6 change-over? Y2038?).
...and for the last time, it's not a bug, it's a feature!
Having to buy another phone is part of the lockin (lockout?) in switching Mobile phone companies in North America. The other problem is having to change your phone number.
Even if you have this "super all-in-one chip". all the mobile companies will just SP-lock them (as some do now) so that you can only use it on their network.
I usually switch back and forth, and sometimes even in the middle of a sentence without thinking about it. It's not a big deal when your friends understand all 3 languages, but if you only spoke one of the 3 or 4 languages you'd probably be lost.
This brings up a problem with translations and learning new languages. IMO you don't really KNOW the language unless you THINK in that laguange. Doing a BabelFish in your head is not the same. This is exactly the problem I (and probably most adults) have learning new languages; we babelfish a new language instead of learning it.
How does CanPost figure that this will solve their 'people no longer pay their bills through the mail' problem? I mean, I myself, and many of my cow-orkers, already pay our bills online.
All of the major banks in Canada have online/web banking for little or no cost (compared to price of stamp or service fee to pay at a branch).
Heck, most people don't even get their Social Benefits and tax rebate/refund cheques mail to them any more. It's all automagically deposited into their account.
Even on a person-to-person level some banks (i.e. TD Bank) even let you transfer money from your account directly into another person's account online.
If the average person is techno-brave enough to try CanPost's new offerings, wouldn't they rather be doing that through their bank or trust co anyway?
Just face it, as far as cheques and bills goes, CanPost's days are numbered. I guess it's eventually going to be just bulk packages that doesn't have to be there RSN, and personal hand-scribed letters left for them.
And, of course, they still have the snail-SPAM market, AKA junkmail.
On serving mammoth meat... Didn't they do that with the last frozen woolie they found in the artic? I'm going to have to dig up the cite for this, but I'm sure it wasn't just an urban legend or my imagination.
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Or if you're really paranoid, use coins.
Yes, gettings 1000 laptops with the specs to run VMware will be real cheap. And training people who have never used a computer in their life to deal with Linux will be easy too.
A better solution is to use Boot Manager or whatever and create two boot patitions. One with with plain old DOS, and the other with whatever the fruit-of-the-Miscrosoft-day happens to be.
Typing "cmd" only gets you the NT command prompt which is not the same as typing "command" to get the DOS command prompt.
Either way you don't get "direct acces to DOS". Even not-so-direct apps we have that access the COMM port directly doesn't work too well under the virtualized COM ports in NT and Windows 2000. Interestingly it's fine in OS/2's VM DOS.
If it weren't for file-compatibility with MS Office files with our customers, we probably we happy just sticking to "pure" DOS. And we often "Restart in MS DOS" when things are not-quite-right running DOS apps in Windows 9x.
For this reason, like Windows 2000, ME probably won't make it onto our operations laptops. The problem is that we may not have a choice. When we buy our next batch of laptops it may only come with Win ME or 2K. I guess it's time to start stock up on Windows 98 licenses.
When I was in highschool (Grade 11 computer science) we did this interesting project where we create a hypo-machine. We would develop a quasi-assembly language interpreter with some simple instructions. Then we wrote some programs in this new language to show that it worked. Very simple stuff like adding and multiplying numbers and output to the screen.
It was great in teaching me how memory addresses and instructions work in a CPU. I think it's learning fundamental things like this that really helps the students understand want happens when they run a program.
That's actually not a bad idea. CeleronII 566 FSB 66 for doing "work"... turn on TURBO for some gaming at 850 FSB 100 or when you don't care if you crash and burn.
.. where's those mod points when you need them...
The best use I have for internet on my phone is to use it to look up phone numbers. Do a search, click on the link and it dials the number for you. This beats carrying around a hefty "Yellow pages" and "White Pages" for a surrounding population of about 5 million.
/.) needs a bigger screen so I attached it to my PalmPilot.
Also great for checking stock quotes and other small pieces of information (e.g. traffic conditions). Larger pieces of information (i.e. email, or
I'm surprised nobody has noticed this, A M D has A-thlon at the top and D-uron at the bottom. My questions is what's in the middle? M-oron?
Anybody care to tell me why we have gmcanada.com when http://gm.ca would make much more sense?
Actually, one reason why you can't have gm.ca is that the current rules for .CA stipulates that the 2 character SLD are reserved for provinces and and territories. Albeit, the chance of us acquiring (or dividing) a GM territory is low, we have done it recently with the creation of Nunavut: nu.ca.
Still, I don't understand things like nissancanada.com when nissan.ca is perfectly OK
Why can't they just leave it up there orbitting and taking pictures? Is it running out of fuel? The article makes no reference to that. Are we really better off with another piece of space junk, even if it's not orbitting Earth?
You're looking for SlashCash : News for Investors, Money matters. Or maybe ZDNet...
Damn, someone beat me to it ;-)
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Well, if I had a $1 everytime somebody ...
./ is about the only site that I read regularly on HTML. I do occausional use deja.com to search for specific topics, when it's not obvious which newsgroup I should start reading.
Since I started reading usenet in teh late 1980s, I've been hearing more and more of the death of X.
For me, usenet will never lose it's importance. Reading on the web sucks,
For some people the problem is their connection speed, which isn't really a poblem for me since I have cable@HOME and T1 at work. Good old text-based Usenet is just better for reading. Many people will complain about the spam, flame/holly wars, and trolls, but that's all part of the fun. Having said that, I wouldn't mind some slashdot-style moderating.
Now all we need are LEGO-proof vests to protect you against other people with LEGO machine guns.
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Why aren't we using the LEGO icon?
We don't really NEED super-over-powered PDA (and that's going to sound funny in a couple of years when we have 2Ghz chipettes), but who wouldn't want one if it did everything they needed.
/. instead of fight traffic) and bring me food when I'm hungry.
My PalmIII is pretty handy, but I'd love to have a decent colour screen, more storage and a CPU fast enough to play MP3s and MPEG2 videos; and still have the same battery life. Wireless Quake would be awesome. While you're at it, I need a GPS system. And please use MDs for removable storage.
I know, somebody's going to flame "why would you want to view MPEG2 videos on this tiny thing", or somesuch. My question is "why not?".
And it should be all to auto-drive my car (so I can read
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From reading all these CNET/ZDNET/MSNBC/CNN articles, you'd think that it's just another x86 clone. I think "Mobile Internet" is just a marketing grab-bag of buzz word. Oh and "Mobile Linux Web Pad"; wow bonus points for getting 'web', 'internet', and 'linux' in there.
I seriously hope that once they get some recognition they'll get beyond this markdroid stuff and do something really interesting with Crusoe. Releasing Java, DragonBall Z (PalmPilot), and other code-morphing layers would be a start. As just-anther-intel-clone, they're gonna go nowhere.
ObStockMarket: IBM, and AMD were up a few of bucks, and Intel was down a couple today. Coincident?
Crusoe: "Where do you want to be stranded today?"
I laugh so hard at that one, but other people in the room just thought that I was insane. There's tons of gems like this that I only catch when I see an episode for the second or third time. Anyone ever notice all the details that in the episodes? People who complain that the Simpsons isn't funny any more has probably 'missed the point'.
I love the part when Bill Gates shows up and says (para-phrasing from memory) ``I don't know what you do but we're going to buy you''.
Or was it ``What? You think I got rich by paying me money'' or some such.
D'oh..., somebody post the exact quotes.
What about digital watches? Isn't that why we left the trees and started moving little green pieces of papers for?
There are only 42 really useful gadgets ever made; infinite room full of monkeys notwithstanding.
Coincidently, I just saw a little segment about the 9/9/99 problem on CNN. Bascially, just about what you said above; the-dust-has-not-settled hysteria. I was hoping to to see an end to this Millennium Bug garbage, but I guess we're going to keep hearing about it until enough people catch on to CNN's next big thing (IPv6 change-over? Y2038?).
...and for the last time, it's not a bug, it's a feature!
Having to buy another phone is part of the lockin (lockout?) in switching Mobile phone companies in North America. The other problem is having to change your phone number.
Even if you have this "super all-in-one chip". all the mobile companies will just SP-lock them (as some do now) so that you can only use it on their network.
Le Dot de Slash (French)
I thought DotSlash would be more French. Although in francais canajian, it's probably Le SlashPoint!
I usually switch back and forth, and sometimes even in the middle of a sentence without thinking about it. It's not a big deal when your friends understand all 3 languages, but if you only spoke one of the 3 or 4 languages you'd probably be lost.
This brings up a problem with translations and learning new languages. IMO you don't really KNOW the language unless you THINK in that laguange. Doing a BabelFish in your head is not the same. This is exactly the problem I (and probably most adults) have learning new languages; we babelfish a new language instead of learning it.
My thought exactly.
How does CanPost figure that this will solve their 'people no longer pay their bills through the mail' problem? I mean, I myself, and many of my cow-orkers, already pay our bills online.
All of the major banks in Canada have online/web banking for little or no cost (compared to price of stamp or service fee to pay at a branch).
Heck, most people don't even get their Social Benefits and tax rebate/refund cheques mail to them any more. It's all automagically deposited into their account.
Even on a person-to-person level some banks (i.e. TD Bank) even let you transfer money from your account directly into another person's account online.
If the average person is techno-brave enough to try CanPost's new offerings, wouldn't they rather be doing that through their bank or trust co anyway?
Just face it, as far as cheques and bills goes, CanPost's days are numbered. I guess it's eventually going to be just bulk packages that doesn't have to be there RSN, and personal hand-scribed letters left for them.
And, of course, they still have the snail-SPAM market, AKA junkmail.
On serving mammoth meat...
Didn't they do that with the last frozen woolie they found in the artic? I'm going to have to dig up the cite for this, but I'm sure it wasn't just an urban legend or my imagination.
And it didn't taste like chicken...
Holy ithoughtyouwerealltrolling.com!!
I tried my domain name but it didn't worked. Then I tried my surname after reading your post and now... well, now I'm paranoid.
Does that mean somebody has already beaten me to my domain logons, or are these mailboxes 'random'.
complain! complain!